Fedora 29 LXDE Spin issues

[Richard Shaw]

I installed it to an older AMD laptop since it's lighter weight than Gnome.

Live USB worked just fine as did the installer.

After rebooting into the system I have noticed the following problems.

1. No wifi... nm-applet says something about "device not ready".

2. Video corruption initially...

If I do a "teliinit 3" followed by a "telinit 5" everything is fine, but I
don't get a login page on first boot, just a corrupted background and a
mouse cursor.

No clue why the live USB works perfectly and the system does not. It was a
fresh install on "/" with an existing "/home".

Thanks,
Richard

[Mamoru TASAKA]

Richard Shaw wrote on 2018/11/03 10:59:
> I installed it to an older AMD laptop since it's lighter weight than Gnome.
> Live USB worked just fine as did the installer.
> After rebooting into the system I have noticed the following problems.
> No wifi... nm-applet says something about "device not ready".
> Video corruption initially...
>
> If I do a "teliinit 3" followed by a "telinit 5" everything is fine, but I
> don't get a login page on first boot, just a corrupted background and a
> mouse cursor.
>
> No clue why the live USB works perfectly and the system does not. It was a
> fresh install on "/" with an existing "/home".

First I would suggest that you try creating new /home and fresh user
there using live install, then mount the old "/home" as /home2, for example.

Regards,
Mamoru

[Richard Shaw]

On Fri, Nov 2, 2018 at 10:48 PM Mamoru TASAKA 
wrote:
> Richard Shaw wrote on 2018/11/03 10:59:
> > No clue why the live USB works perfectly and the system does not. It was
>
> a
> > fresh install on "/" with an existing "/home".
>
> First I would suggest that you try creating new /home and fresh user
> there using live install, then mount the old "/home" as /home2, for
> example.

Should that affect the login page? I created the users in the same order
and verified on the filesystem that the owner/group changed from a number
to the correct username... Since /home is a LVM volume I'm not sure how to
easily make that type of change other than to not mount it and create a
user under the root LV.

Thanks,
Richard

[Richard Shaw]

Ok, I had forgot to mention that I have one service
failing... var-lib-nfs-rpc_pipefs.mount, but doing a "touch ./autorelabel"
seems to have fixed it.

I looked in updates testing and noticed that there were new packages for
xorg-x11 and NetworkManager so I went ahead and installed them. Reboot.
Everything seems to be working fine now.

Thanks,
Richard

[mark.dean]

FWIW, doing a dnf update (assuming you have some form of Internet) seems to fix a wide range of initial install problems. 
-------- Original message --------From: Richard Shaw  Date: 11/3/18  11:05  (GMT-05:00) To: Fedora LXDE users and developers  Subject: Re: Fedora 29 LXDE Spin issues Ok, I had forgot to mention that I have one service failing... var-lib-nfs-rpc_pipefs.mount, but doing a "touch ./autorelabel" seems to have fixed it.I looked in updates testing and noticed that there were new packages for xorg-x11 and NetworkManager so I went ahead and installed them. Reboot. Everything seems to be working fine now.Thanks,Richard

[Richard Shaw]

On Sat, Nov 3, 2018 at 12:08 PM mark.dean  wrote:
> FWIW, doing a dnf update (assuming you have some form of Internet) seems
> to fix a wide range of initial install problems.

Yes, but I had already done that... Needed a couple of packages from
updates-testing in order to get things straightened out. I'll give it a bit
more time before I upgrade any system I care about.

Thanks,
Richard